Green’s Dictionary of Slang

nickel and dime n.

(US) time.

1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks.
1944		Maurer & Baker ‘“Aus.” Rhyming Argot’ in AS XIX:3.
1999		R. Walton ‘Cockney Jack and the Beanstalk’ 🌐 The next front and rear, when Jack’s grounding was up, he stepped outside for his first breath of penny bunshine in a long, long nickle and dime.